The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
"Running has always been a big thing in our family. Especially from the police."
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: April 30, 2013
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tom Courtenay & Michael Redgrave | |
Performer: | Alec McCowen, James Bolam, Avis Bunnage, John Thaw, James Fox, Peter Madden, Julia Foster, John Bull & Frank Finlay | |
Directed by | Tony Richardson | |
Edited by | Antony Gibbs | |
Screenwriting by | Alan Sillitoe | |
Composition by | John Addison | |
Art Direction by | Ted Marshall | |
Produced by | Tony Richardson | |
Director of Photography: | Walter Lassally |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
One of the best of the British 'Angry Young Man films.'
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TV Guide
Rating: 5/5 --
The counter-Hollywood bloody-mindedness packs a knockout punch.
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Guardian
Rating: 5/5 --
Ultimately, Richardson's pot-shots at consumerism and class have lost some urgency, but the nihilistic, punky buzz packs an immortal wallop. Classic.
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Total Film
Richardson, the producer and director, makes his point clearly enough, but at quite a price: bias trailing off into parody, forcefulness impaired by stylistic inconsistency, a dispiriting familiarity of approach.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
The film's numerous flashbacks make heavy weather of the essentially simple story, but they fail to spoil its honesty and sardonic humor. Sir Michael Redgrave portrays, without any taint of caricature, a hearty reform school governor...
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Maclean's Magazine
The performance of Tom Courtenay and the imaginative, if sometimes overfussy, direction of Tony Richardson, plus some standout lensing by Walter Lassally makes this a worthwhile pic.
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Variety
More allegory from the depths of the British kitchen sink.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
"Running has always been a big thing in our family. Especially from the police." So says taut-jawed, wary-eyed Colin, a promising distance runner. For working-class reform school inmate Colin, the opposition isn't another runner. It's the Establishment.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 22,038
- UPC: 883316734483
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